Wine Industry News
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(Decanter) - Luxembourg wine merchant has been has defrauded of thousands of Euros of wine by a man posing as the agent for a premier league footballer. Some of the stolen wine – €26,100 of Ausone, Latour, Lafite, Petrus and Margaux – has subsequently been offered to the UK fine wine trade. ... -
(NYDailynews) - US consumers were the world's top wine drinkers in 2011, while China displaced Britain to become the fifth largest wine consumer, according to new research released on Thursday. US consumers downed the equivalent of 3.7 billion bottles of wine, while China including Hong Kong dran...US is biggest wine consumer, China joins top five; People paying more money for better vino
January, 16, 2012 -
(Thetimes-tribune) - In Pennsylvania, consumers go one place to buy beer and another place to buy wine and spirits. But that could change.As lawmakers mulled over proposals to change that system - including one as dramatic as privatizing state-run wine and spirit stores - another proposal was throw...US: Pennsylvania Retailers lukewarm on newest wine sales idea
January, 16, 2012 -
(NBBJ) - Two new tightly focused American Viticultural Areas budded in the North Coast last week. Effective Jan. 13, the U.S. Trade & Tax Bureau established AVAs for Coombsville in southern Napa Valley and for Fort Ross-Seaview in western Sonoma County. The 11,075-acre Coombsville subappellation ...US: Feds create Coombsville, Fort Ross-Seaview appellations
January, 16, 2012 -
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January, 16, 2012 -
(Bloomberg) - Lots of first growth Bordeaux, including Chateau Lafite-Rothschild and Chateau Margaux, went unsold in a $18.7 million test of demand for fine wine. Wealthy Chinese and other collectors focused on the very best older vintages and Burgundies such as DRC Domaine de la Romanee-Conti at...Bordeaux Goes Unsold, Price Qualms Damp $18.7 Million Sales
January, 16, 2012 -
(Journalgazette) - When Croatia was part of Yugoslavia, government policies forced farmers to rip out 395,368 acres of vineyards. Ethnic conflicts in the 1990s destroyed thousands more. Now, with about 82,000 acres under vines – still more than double the amount of New Zealand – Croatia is lo...Croatia looks to grow exports of its wines
January, 15, 2012 -
(NZHerald) - A local wine label is gaining strong sales growth from its low-alcohol sauvignon blanc, with output expected to hit the 60,000 bottle mark this year. Auckland-based Invivo Wines launched Bella by Invivo in 2010, and the first vintage - made up of 6000 bottles - quickly sold out, says...NZ: Low-alcohol wine making strong gains
January, 15, 2012

